Rumor of the Day: “Madonna Has Hired a Personal Sterilization Staff” Edition

Say what you will about Madonna, the master of reinvention/polarizing publicity seeker/custom-throne connoisseur is one of the most consistent fonts of wild, diva-like tour-demand rumors. Less than two weeks after it was reported that the seven-time Grammy winner requires a 200-person entourage, an on-site dry cleaner, 20 international phone lines, and her own personal furniture in each hotel room she occupies during her MDNA tour, a new report alleges that Madonna also employs a personal sterilization team to wipe down her dressing room with crime-scene-like precision when she leaves each location.

Alvaro Ramos, the concert promoter managing the Portuguese leg of Madonna’s MDNA tour, made mention of the peculiar demand during a recent press conference:

“We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist. We cannot even look at the dressing room, after it is ready, or even open the door.

“We can only enter after her sterilisation team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna’s DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable.

“I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes.”

The concert promoter, at what might be his last press conference, also told press that her staff “build[s] everything for her, including fake ceilings and fake walls, so they can ensure that no one has hidden a camera somewhere.” As if the discussion of these borderline-paranoid tour demands were not enough, Ramos added, “She is a perfectionist, and expects the best. But then, at her age [blogger’s note: wince] and with her status, why shouldn’t she?”